Rage In opposition to The Machine carried out ‘No Shelter’ on the second Chicago date of their much-delayed ‘Public Service Announcement’ Tour. It’s the primary time in 15 years that the political rap-rock band have performed the track.
‘No Shelter’ has been a fan-favourite since its launch on 1998’s Godzilla soundtrack, earlier than additionally showing as a bonus observe on the Japanese and Australian variations of The Battle of Los Angeles, their third studio album, launched in 1999.
The primary and second Chicago exhibits have been a lot the identical, much less the band swapped ‘Tire Me’ for ‘No Shelter’, and ‘Down Rodeo’ for ‘Vietnow’. Nonetheless, throughout the first present, Zach de la Rocha injured his leg throughout the set and needed to play the remaining 13 tracks sat down.
Final Saturday, July ninth, Rage performed their first live performance in practically 11 years. It occurred on the Alpine Valley Music Theatre in East Troy, Wisconsin. The present included a canopy of Bruce Springsteen, 15 of the basic Rage catalogue, and addressed the latest overturning of Roe vs. Wade that legalised abortion in the US.
After sharing a press release on Roe vs. Wade earlier this 12 months, the band made a pledge to donate $475,000 to reproductive rights organisations in Wisconsin and Illinois. The donation quantity has been raised by way of ticket gross sales.
The ‘Public Service Announcement’ Tour will proceed tomorrow (Friday, July fifteenth) in Ottawa. In August, the band will full a run of UK dates, together with headline units at this 12 months’s Studying and Leeds Festivals, in addition to a giant open-air present in Edinburgh.
The tour had initially been penned in to go forward in March 2020, however after all, the Covid pandemic put paid to that, and the tour was rescheduled a number of occasions.
